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[NVARider]

Go on vacation for a week and lose 4 subs. Nice! haha This after sitting at the same number for 3 weeks. Oh well. Keep plugging away.

 

[Drakhen99]

I feel you on that! I was climbing steadily and for the past couple of weeks ... zip, nada, zilch, even lost 2 before gaining 1 back, now sitting steady.

I've also seen some weird things in my stats, like the "live view" of sub count going to 0 for a couple of days. I am pretty sure YT has a database issue.

-John

 

[Riderguide]

It's YouTube purging the none users or spam/fakers. I'm happy also if people jump ship, ideally we don't need subs from non viewers, it stuffs up the algorithm. However ... 96.9% of my views are from none subbed LOL.

 

[R-Rated]

Go on vacation for a week and lose 4 subs. Nice! haha This after sitting at the same number for 3 weeks. Oh well. Keep plugging away.

A best practice is to always have a buffer of videos coming out over the next few weeks just to ward off the YouTube sub rustlers -

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I've heard a few folk have lost several recently, my stats have been looking a little off from normal and I have not been getting as many new subs as normal... but I'd put that down to me posting some vids I enjoy making, which are generally vids others don't like to watch as much.

 

[Moto Mengy]

It's YouTube purging the none users or spam/fakers. I'm happy also if people jump ship, ideally we don't need subs from non viewers, it stuffs up the algorithm. However ... 96.9% of my views are from none subbed LOL.

Yep. YouTube purges bot and spammer accounts weekly, pretty much everyone loses some subs on a regular basis due to this.

 

[Drakhen99]

I had another "gain a sub, lose a sub" day today... but it proved my multi-part destination rides aren't as well-received as my vlog/testing vids... something to keep in mind, since I already have 2 or 3 more either done or still in editing. I may just put up those destination rides as 1 part long-form vids instead of working harder to break them up into 10m or less chunks.

On a side note... has anyone ever used TubeBuddy to check on the subs for another channel? I've seen some bigger channels get a reported 100 or 200 subs a day... like not 104 or 215, but 100 and 200, day-in, day-out. That round of a number just seems odd to me, and I wonder if it's the way TubeBuddy is accessing the stats, or if they're paying for subs or something???

-John